Encyclo - De online Nederlandstalige encyclopedieën in één oogopslag
Encyclopedia Sources Categories About Encyclo
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Index
Agriculture and Industry
Animals and Nature
Architecture and Buildings
Arts
Business and Law
Earth and Environment
Economy and Finance
Education
Electronics and Engineering
Film and Animation
Food and Drink
General
General technical and industrial
Government and organisations
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Hobbies and Crafts
Language and Literature
Legal
Management
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology and astronomy
Military and Defence
Music and Sound
People and society
Sciences
Sport and Leisure
Technical and IT
Travel and Transportation

Look up: Babbitt

  1. Babbitt
    Babbitt is a city in St Louis County Minnesota, USA.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/G3

  2. babbitt
    [v] - line with a Babbitt metal
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Babbitt
    A soft antifriction metal used to line bearings. Made of tin, antimony, lead, and copper.
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  4. Babbitt
    Satirical novel 1922 by Sinclair Lewis about a Midwestern businessman obsessed with commerce, clubs, and material values. `Babbittry` came to mean a type of...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Babbitt
    Bab"bitt transitive verb To line with Babbitt metal.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/1

  6. babbitt
    verb line with a Babbitt metal
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Babbitt
    `Babbitt` (novel)` is a 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis. It can also refer to: * A now rare epithet derived from the Sinclair Lewis book of the same name, loosely defined as an uncultured `square`, a typically middle-aged and middle-class businessman characterized by the timidity and ignorance of their philistinism.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt

  8. Babbitt
    • (v. t.) To line with Babbitt metal.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. Babbitt
    (from the article `Lewis, Sinclair`) In 1922 Lewis published Babbitt, a study of the complacent American whose individuality has been sucked out of him by Rotary clubs, business ideals, ... ...writer with real emotional intensity, Sinclair Lewis was best as a social critic. His onslaughts against the `village virus` (Main Stre...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/1

  10. Babbitt
    a soft, white, non-ferrous alloy bearing material composed principally of copper, antimony, tin and lead.
    Found on http://www.noria.com/dictionary/default.

No exact matches found.
We are now searching for
• words containing `Babbitt`;
• Alternative spelling;
• Wider definitions.

One moment please...

5 December 2008

This day in history:
On 5th December 1872 a crewman on watch on board the British ship Dei Gratia sighted vessel that seemed to be in distress. Three seamen lowered the Dei Gratia's small boat and rowed across to the troubled craft to offer assistance. They hauled themselves over the ship's rails and dropped onto the deck; save for the sound of the wind in the sails and the eerie creaking of the ship's timbers, there was not a sound. The seamen searched the ship from stem to stern and found her to be in excellent condition, but there was not a soul on board. Her crew had disappeared. The name of the ship was Mary Celeste. read more

Encyclo in your browser

Encyclo in the search bar of your browser? Click for more info! Would you like to use Encyco more often? Add an (extra) search option to the search field of your browser. Installed in 3 seconds, easy to remove.
More info

What is Encyclo?

Encyclo is a search engine for terms and definitions. Hundreds of websites contain wordlists, each with their own speciality. Encyclo brings those lists together and makes searching for definitions a lot easier.

Statistics

Encyclo has been online since october 15th 2007. It currently contains 3,190,154 words from 953 sources. The words are listed in 32 categories.

Search

Type a word and press the `Search` button.
Quick search
Translate

To
Spelling checker
Synonyms
Merriam-Webster
Google Define

Recent searches

The most recent searches on Encyclo. Between brackets you will find the number of results and number of related results.
insoluble (9/8)
oliguria (13/15)
Qais (1/7)
Zohra Daoud (1/1)
arginine (12/33)
life insurance provision (1/)
nunatak (8/3)
quadratrix (4/3)
gio key board (1/1)
mul t (25/40)
orichalcum (3/9)
cross hairs (1/3)
nodi lymphatici juxta oesophageales pulmonales (1/)
helicobactor pylori (1/40)
pivot joint (9/9)
kohleria (3/24)
outtravel (2/2)
Excelan (1/40)
trimerous (3/10)

© Encyclo 2008
Contact